Project: Ramp House, Austin
Client: T.E. Kolenda
Architect: M.J. Neal Architect
Contractor: M.J. Neal Development
Consultants: Structures by Jerry Garcia (structural)
Photographer: Joe Pettyjohn
Let's take a look closer to one of one design award by Texas Society of Architects / AIA, a house called 'the ramp house'. A nice looking house by geometrical composition.
The floor plan of ramp house you can see above, shown the siteplan , foor plan and section plam of the building
The Room of slope is a study in time and movement,” known as Neal, who lives in the house with his family. “I wanted to play with the fourth dimension, stop watch; deliberately to slow down the step of the voyage by the house. I wanted that the people tested the order of space differently that just packing in top
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The red color determine the house's masculine look. The owner said in the website that it is a 'time experience', rather than just racing upstairs. Finally there is the most of spatial experience in the house.
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The architect also has a big consideration on scale and proportion, as well as connection with the history of the site and its surroundings.
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